Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Explores printing conventions in the eighteenth century and the gradual tendency to abandon the use of capital letters,...  Read More >>

""The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together...  Read More >>

At the heart of A Living Shakespeare is the belief that contemporary poetry can bring us into an encounter with...  Read More >>

Shakespeare is at the heart of the British theatrical tradition, but the contribution of Ira Aldridge and the Shakespearean...  Read More >>

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"""A modern translation that retains all the wit, romance, and poetry of the original bringing the tragicomedy vividly...  Read More >>

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The two-part tale of King Henry IV, rewritten with new language for the twenty-first century. Shakespeare’s two...  Read More >>

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First published in 1973 and 1977 respectively, these two volumes examine the history of French drama. The first...  Read More >>

T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Idealcharts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. Eliot’s...  Read More >>

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A play about the sexual experiences of young adults in a world of information overload and weaponised language  Read More >>

Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) is considered to be one of the greatest scholars of the Early German Enlightenment....  Read More >>

In this critical study of the man and his work, first published in 1951 and revised in 1973, Dr Brereton’s guiding...  Read More >>

A study of Rudolf Steiner's prophecy regarding the physical incarnation of the being of Ahriman.  Read More >>

Philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner was also a radical dramatist who wrote four lengthy and complex plays....  Read More >>

Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale narrated by a murdered American teenager. Bryony...  Read More >>

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Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social...  Read More >>

With the character Didon, Etienne Jodelle shows the fall of a tragic heroine and puts a fashionable subject on the...  Read More >>

What money?! This ends when you end. This experiment is about the survival of the fittest. Nothing more – nothing...  Read More >>

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways....  Read More >>

The newly revised, wonderfully authoritative First Folio of William Shakespeare’s Complete Works, edited by acclaimed...  Read More >>